MARIE

Our festival has already started for thirty minutes now… maybe an hour.

Time moved strangely tonight, slow and fast at the same time.

Everyone kept looking toward the entrance, waiting, expecting him...

My brother.

Their Alpha.

I wasn’t surprised he was late, not when she was with him. The woman who gave birth to his child… the woman he could never stay away from.

They would delay each other. They always did.

The music still played, the lights still glowed. Nothing stopped. ...